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Weekend class warrior. Mid 30s. Proud socialist. Member of https://independentsocialistgroup.org/ in the US - though my takes (esp. my hot takes) are my own, and don't necessarily represent the org as a whole.

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 11d

A few of my comrades in the Independent Socialist Group made a podcast! Listen here:
independentsocialistgroup.org/2025/10/14/s...

Socialist World Podcast Episode 1: How Did You Become a Socialist?

Welcome to the first episode of the Socialist World podcast! In this podcast, some members of ISG discuss how they became socialists and why they joined ISG. Socialist World is a new podcast produc…

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 1h

"But it already says that in the preview"
People scroll fast and don't always read everything

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 1h

For those wondering why the preview is just showing an image of a swastika on top of a building, it's a still frame from footage of it getting blown the fuck up shortly after the Nazis lost the war

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 2h

This one actually made me feel like a dumbass for the ones I got wrong. The one at the top of the thread gives less useful/predictive information about the voters

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 2h

Kind of similar to Aspie Supremacists who sneer at less "functional" autistic people, or colorism w/in Black/brown communities that favor the relatively fairer-skinned. People desperate to at least be "respectable" enough to avoid harm, up to/incl. throwing the more "deviant" under the bus

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 2h

This is anecdotal on my part but in talking w/ less educated, mostly older coworkers about what should've been impeachment-level scandals for Trump 2, I consistently found they took bullshit framing at face value, e.g. Trump is only going after the criminals, DOGE is just making govt leaner

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 2h

I think the educated and chronically online underestimate how credulous some voters actually are, and how difficult it is to decipher what lying-ass candidates and their parties actually stand for and consistently do once elected, unless you have the pattern recognition skills of an abused child

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone wondering how the hell the pro-choice people voted for Trump would be wise to remember that: a) a bunch of people were dumb enough to believe Trump wasn't lying by omission re: his disinterest in P25; and b) Trump's mistresses have had abortions, so surely he must be pro-choice

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 3h

There's a shamefully large contingent of immigrants who did everything The Right Way, suffering for decades to earn their legal status who feel nothing but contempt for undocumented immigrants who "cheated" and supposedly milk the welfare state they're paying into but can't benefit from themselves

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 4h

I tend to avoid reductionist explanations involving just one of race, gender, etc. w/o factoring in class but this specific comparison feels close to a cut-and-dried case of US politics, even intra-Democratic Party politics, being racist as fuck

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 4h

Getting scrutiny for not scrubbing a Nazi tattoo sooner vs. getting "scrutiny" for being a Muslim in New York
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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 4d

All the racist bullshit thrown at Mamdani and Platner gets benefit of the doubt when it's clear he no longer deserves it.

I don't support Mamdani since he's a Dem, and fully expect his Milkshake Duck moment to come later when he inevitably sics NYPD on protestors as mayor, but holy shit man

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 5h

I earnestly thought his main source of income was Patreon and the like. What the hell man

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 5h

I've eaten some truly awful struggle meals (as in, literally just tortilla chips and salsa) but this seems like bridge too far, though maybe it's just I don't like hot dogs specifically. Swap the franks out with chik'n nuggets and this becomes at least palatable

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 6h

Is turning it into a reef the actual intent or a coincidental side effect?

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 6h

This report seems to conflate gen AI with potentially actually useful forms of machine learning but to give a rough sense we're talking hundreds of billions in USD invested last year, maybe a few trillion cumulatively. And these are lower bound estimates probably
hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/202...

Economy | The 2025 AI Index Report | Stanford HAI

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 6h

This tech is beginning to devour the rest of the economy and expanding like a cancerous tumor by the way. This interviewee's rage is the rage of every creative worker whose QoL decreases as they're confronted with gen AI worming its way into their workflow

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 6h

At least tangentially relevant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl2v...

Is Rouge the Bat a Latina? (A Lawyer Overanalyzes)

YouTube video by Moon Channel

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 6h

I think the answer is probably no, unless an actual Latine person makes that mistake. Actual Latine followers/moots encouraged to sound off and make me look like a fool if I'm off base here

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 8h

Your mention of RTS makes it sound like they're playing Starcraft (where the term "zerg rush" comes from) and I don't think that's what you were going for

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 9h

I would liken it more to a Paradox-esque grand strategy game where the oligarchs are all edgy 14-year-olds making decisions based purely on vibes and ideology without thinking about actual cause and effect relationships. Except Trump who I'm convinced thinks he's playing Total War

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 9h

I would posit that the US has *never* been a democracy. There's always been at least some demographic at the bottom of the class hierarchy that's been either literally or effectively disenfranchised. Always the iron grip of a duopoly of two capitalist-backed parties

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 9h

Even calling this 50-60 year span truly democratic is a little generous given this period is characterized by the evisceration of the welfare state and organized labor. You do not get the Patriot Act, DHS, and associated mass surveillance infrastructure in a democracy. You don't get the war on drugs

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 10h

What if somebody skeeted something particularly prescient that I think I might want to quote five years from now

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 10h

And of course I find it on DDG *immediately* after posting this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHEz...

Sir, please, I am the Garbage Man.mp4

YouTube video by Political Aesthetics Escape Pod

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My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 10h

"You have violated the nap"

"Sir, I am the garbage man"

I would link the video but Google search is so ass now that I can't find it on YouTube so easily anymore

My Two Cents, 50% Off @discchoco.bsky.social · 10h

Given the unusual attention this post got, humbly requesting folks who liked this to sign/share this petition to help a Mass. educator, fired over Charlie Kirk related comments, to get her job back. If you don't add anything to the letter it'll take maybe a minute
actionnetwork.org/letters/brin...

Reinstate Laurie!

Petition to Reinstate Laurie Davis To the Superintendent of Sharon Public Schools, Peter Botelho, the Chair of the Sharon School Committee, Avi Shemtov, and the Sharon School Committee: On Monday...

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